Mr. Speaker, after the last two speakers desperate attempts to claim their left wing credentials, it has started to become something like a politicians anonymous meeting. I am glad that being conservative, being right wing is not a disease.
I want to talk a little about the Romanow gap about which we keep hearing. I happen to have to live with the results of the Romanow administration and government. When he came to power, we had a hospital about eight miles away. It was a small town hospital that worked well. We had roads that we could drive on, an ambulance service that served us and we had doctors who were willing to come to the rural areas. By the time Mr. Romanow was done with his health reform, the hospital in the local area was pretty well shut down. We have part time medical services in our area.
The roads have been allowed to deteriorate so the ambulance trip over them is a miserable experience. He left us with part time health services. The nearest full service hospital is 90 miles away. It is well over an hour in an ambulance even with the lights flashing. I happen to know that because I was on the ambulance service at home. We are left with a place where doctors are reluctant to come.
Does the member not realize that Roy Romanow has no credibility with those of us who had to live through his regime and his health care reforms? The Romanow gap is really a credibility gap.